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Do you need to borrow a panic button..???

Since this has been coming down the pipe for about twenty months, you'd think the Obamanation, that has a "vested interest" in health care would have covered this little issue (now projected to kill 90,000 in the U. S.)like a London fog. I heard today on the news that vaccine might be available mid to late OCTOBER. That is not the same schedule influenza is on... Mad
MY son's school in Tennessee will probably be closed starting tomorrow.

He is home sick, but I am not sure it's the actual flu. He only has congestion, a cough and a fever. No other symptoms yet, and he has felt bad since late Saturday.

Our team traveled last week, and just about everyone who rode the bus is sick now, adults included. My son was not on that bus, so it's like we're getting it from several sources at once.

I'm afraid we don't have H1N1 this time and that later we'll miss school again for that. Whatever we have, it is very contagious.
A reminder:

This is a flu just like any other flu. Yes, it stands a chance of becoming more infectious than the "normal" seasonal flu but, at the moment, it's just a flu.

No need to panic, lose sleep or blame the Obama administration yet. Jeez, you folks are starting to sound like the crazies who blamed George Bush for Katrina!

Stock up on hand sanitizer and or wash often.
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Originally posted by ms. wonka:
Oh my gosh, homesickgirl, we live in Sheffield and my 11 yr. old son has the same symptoms! Eeker


My son is good for at least one of these mild illnesses a year. He doesn't feel awful, but he has a fever and the rule at school is fever-free for 24 hours before returning to school.

This is the first time we've had so many sick at once, though.
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Originally posted by Dawkins7:
A reminder:

This is a flu just like any other flu. Yes, it stands a chance of becoming more infectious than the "normal" seasonal flu but, at the moment, it's just a flu.

No need to panic, lose sleep or blame the Obama administration yet. Jeez, you folks are starting to sound like the crazies who blamed George Bush for Katrina!

Stock up on hand sanitizer and or wash often.


This is what is so confusing to me about this whole swine flu "epidemic". Everything I read about this particular strain says that it isn't really any more dangerous than other strains, but because it's "new", we have no immunities to it or vaccines for it, so by definition, many more people will contract this particular strain.

Prevention is as mentioned above - wash your hands often. Sneeze into your elbow. Treatment is as for any other flu - rest, fluids, OTC drugs for fever/body aches. Stay away from others until fever free for 24 hours.

But yet, many in the media are portraying it as a high level panic situation. So I start to second guess myself. I just wish someone would come forward with a definitive word on just how dangerous this could be.
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But yet, many in the media are portraying it as a high level panic situation. So I start to second guess myself. I just wish someone would come forward with a definitive word on just how dangerous this could be.



The "danger" here is that the virus could possibly mutate to become even more infectious that it currently is which could conceivably infect 50% of the population rather than the "normal" 10%. But that really is just a wild guess at the moment.

But "danger" is a little bit of a misnomer. This flu is actually less severe than the normal seasonal flu and has a considerably lower mortality rate. That mortality rate may be offset by a higher infection rate but we just don't know that yet.

This season is starting early which gives the virus ample time to mutate and find ways around our defenses but any guesses as to what it might do are just that: guesses (or in the case of TV news reporters, wild exaggerations designed to get higher ratings).

Here is a definitive word on the virus from the Centers for Disease Control. Whatever you read in the paper of on TV, THIS website will always have the latest updated information fairly free of hyperbole and panic-inducing rhetoric:

http://www.cdc.gov/H1N1flu/qa.htm
I read a book about the 1918 flu and one feature of it was that it killed the demographic that usually was able to withstand the flu...the people in the 'middle'..the younger healthier people.

If what my son has (and I am currently slowly getting it too) is H1N1, it has seemed no worse than the 'fever sickness' he has once a year. Fever, congestion, scratchy throat. He doesn't have any of the second tier of symptoms that, according to the CDC, warrant a trip to the doctor. This is why I don't know if he actually has THE flu. If I take him to the germ ridden doctor's office to find out if he has the flu, he is likely to get the flu if he hasn't got it already.
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Originally posted by softball1:
I heard on the news this morning that between 30-90,000 people will possibly die from the swine flu. They then said not to panic. Anybody out there now how many die each year from other forms of the flu? Just wondering.


http://nextbigfuture.com/2009/...-in-usa-in-2009.html

"Regular flu in the United States kills about 30,000 people in an average year. 90% of those are people 65 and older who are already not in the best of health. There have been 820-987 deaths each week from the regular flu in the 122 cities that are in the center for disease control tracking system. In the USA there are about 2.5 million deaths in a year.

A regular year worldwide is for 250,000 to 500,000 people to die from the flu."

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